It’s Summer Time!

It’s Summer Time! Jump to Recipes   Tuesday 21st June marks the astronomical start of summer.  This year the astronomical Summer begins on 21 June. This calendar determines the seasons due to the 23.5 degrees of tilt of the Earth’s axis, in its orbit around the Sun. (The meteorological summer began on 1 June. The meteorological seasons are split into three months each. They coincide with our Gregorian calendar,…

a variety of sushi in a small boat like platter

Sushi Day

Happy International Sushi Day! You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy sushi, which is kind of the same thing.  In the last two decades, the traditional Japanese meal known as sushi has become a bit of a sensation. Often considered to be simply raw fish and thus snubbed by many people, the truth behind what sushi is, is…